Links of the Week: February 16, 2024: AI Time, Time for AI?
There's a lot that museums and workers should be doing with and about AI—and most of it will be unknown until workers discover it.
Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes
How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?
Links of the Week: February 9, 2024: Leaders All the Way Down?
Leadership is a practice, not a set of positions. How are museums practicing their leadership?
The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó
A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.
Links of the Week: February 2, 2024: Can't Pass on the Future
Museums and organizations haven't figured out the future of worker well-being. Is it beyond their organizational ability?
The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers
Do museum workers need to take charge of their own well-being—and that of their institutions?
Links of the Week: January 26, 2024: Finding Forward
Can museums and their workers move in the same direction at the same time?
What Do Museums Need to Do to Move Forward for Their Workers?
Museums being honest know that equity, fairness, and justice are organizational problems. Are they avoiding the necessary solutions?
Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?
What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?
Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time?
Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?
Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System
Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.
Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.
Links of the Week: January 5, 2024: Digging in the Link Pile, part 3
We finish up a three-week link dump with AI and decision-making.
What Might Be in Store for Museum Human in 2024
Museum Human considers paid-tier and discoverability dilemmas, among others.
Links of the Week: December 29, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 2 (and finding AI)
AI was clearly the term of the year—check out some links to see how it played out.